Baffle vs. Raffle — What's the Difference?

To confuse or perplex, especially so as to frustrate or prevent from taking action

A raffle is a gambling competition in which people obtain numbered tickets, each of which has the chance of winning a prize. At a set time, the winners are drawn at random from a container holding a copy of each number.

To impede the force or movement of (a fluid).

A lottery in which a number of persons buy chances to win a prize.

A usually static device that regulates the flow of a fluid or light.

Rubbish; debris.

A partition that prevents interference between sound waves in a loudspeaker.

To dispose of in a raffle. Often used with off.

To bewilder completely; to confuse or perplex.

To conduct or take part in a raffle.

(intransitive) To struggle in vain.

A drawing, often held as a fundraiser, in which tickets or chances are sold to win a prize.

To foil; to thwart.

(obsolete) A game of dice in which the player who throws three of the same number wins all the stakes.

(obsolete) To publicly disgrace, especially of a recreant knight.

Refuse; rubbish

(obsolete) To hoodwink or deceive (someone).

(transitive) To award something by means of a raffle or random drawing, often used with off.

A device used to dampen the effects of such things as sound, light, or fluid. Specifically, a baffle is a surface which is placed inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one part to another, without preventing motion altogether.

(intransitive) To participate in a raffle.

An architectural feature designed to confuse enemies or make them vulnerable.

A kind of lottery, in which several persons pay, in shares, the value of something put up as a stake, and then determine by chance (as by casting dice) which one of them shall become the sole possessor.

A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.

A game of dice in which he who threw three alike won all the stakes.

To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.

Refuse; rubbish; raff.

To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.

To engage in a raffle; as, to raffle for a watch.

To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.

To dispose of by means of a raffle; - often followed by off; as, to raffle off a horse.

To practice deceit.

A lottery in which the prizes are goods rather than money

To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.

Dispose of in a lottery;

A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.

A deflector, as a plate or wall, so arranged across a furnace or boiler flue as to mingle the hot gases and deflect them against the substance to be heated.

A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.

A flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy

Be a mystery or bewildering to;

Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of;

Check the emission of (sound)